Seat the work, then stop tapping
Seat the hours with a mallet
A written weekly maximum seats extra work. More hours is a hammer blow that bruises the week.
A mallet seats; a hammer bruises. Hours work the same way.
- Write the extra hours you can keep when the day job is heavy.
- Count messages, quotes and payment chasing as hours.
- If a job would sit proud of that line, move the date. Do not hit harder.
Read your employment contract for outside-work clauses before you take paid side work.
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